r. Vol. i. Notice to Advertisers. All advertisements to insure insertion, must be brought in by 9 o'clock Wednesday mornings. Notice. All advertisements in the FARMER, previous to the issue of the 18th inst., are payable to Mr. Hall, until Dec. 1st, 1880. All subscriptions and new ad vertisements are payable to the pres ent firm. Hotels are doing quite a brisk busi ness thse days. The best stock of clothing at Malt by's, Bluffton. 3 tf Peter Schroder, the Perham brewer, was in town Monday. The cheapest goods on the N. P. R. R. at Biuffton. 3 tf Jacob Meyer has been confined to his room with a bad cold. The celebrated Favorite Cook Stove at Maltby's, Bluffton. 3 tf Candies of all discription at the City Restaurant. Just call and see those fine ladies furs at Baumbach & Meyer's. Books! Books! at the Wadena Drug Store. 22 Everett Kelley is improving, al though he is still confined to his room. Picture books for the children, at the Wadena Drug Store. 22 Mr. Shaulis' little girl is ...

Picked up Particles. Cardinal McCloky is 71. John Bright loves to fish for salmon. Quadrilles are rogaining popularity. Cato learned Greek when he was SO years old. Rev. Charles R. Weld, of Baltimore, is is Boston. Sara Bernhardt'* gloves are clumsy and ill-litting. Bees are avaricious they sell all their honey. The handsomest habv at the Boston show was a boy. "Sarah Heart Burn" is what they call her in the theatre. 'Tis easier to set an example than a speckled hen. Flowing locks—those of a canal— when they're opened. The actor who cannot draw is worse than a blister. Sarah Bernhardt brought with her 350 pairs of stockings. Garfield will be the twentieth presi dent of the United States. The ponderous Richelieu hat is growing in popularity. "Swans sing before they die." They have to if they sing at all. From Paris to San Francisco heavy plush is the fashion. Moody and Sankev are at work on the sinners of San Frandisoo. Mrs. J. M. Lander, well known in Washington. D. C., is in Dresde...

BERXHARDT'S DEBUT. Opening of Sara BrvnliaiiltV l»ra matie Season at RootH's Theater, X'ew York. Correspondence of Chicago Time*'. NEW YOKK, November 8.—Mille Sara Bernhardt opened her season in this country to-night at Booth's Theater, in "Adrienne Lecouvreus." The fame of the actress has aroused the public cu riosity and interest to the highest pitch, and her entree upon the American stage was witnessed by an enormous brilliant and kindly disposed audience. No such audience has hailed the ad vent of any foreign artist since the last appearance here of Charles Dickens. The crush in front of the theater was so great that hundreds of unfortunate people who held tickets were not able to push their way through the throng into the theatre until long after 8 o'clock. All the standing room was sold within half an hour after the box office opened, and through bad man agement the thousands of disappointed admittance seekers were allowed to im pede the entrance of the ticket holders. The cur...

ii Vol. III. No. 28. Northern Pacific Farmer OFFICIAL PAPER OF WADENA COUNTY. OK A. "WHITNEY. W. J. WHIPPLE. WHITNEY & WHIPPLE, PROPRIETORS. ISSUED EVEIIY THURSDAY MORNING AT WADENA. WADENA COUNTY. MINNESOTA. raves is abvahce: One copy one year, six months James Kasson has moved into his new building, and has ordered a stock of goods, which will be on within 10 days. Parkers Prairie will then have three drygoods stores, and room for more. H, Asslin has returned from his trip to St. Paul. Mr. Thomas, our hardware man, is cealing his store room. He is getting a liberal trade. There is yet some threshing to do. The most of the wheat haulers have taken to sleighs. F. Al/DRICH. As you have no correspondent from this place I thought I would send you few items. Winter has set in for good and some of our farmers are getting out wood and ties for the railroad, while others have gone into the woods to get out pine, which commands a good price here. The epizootic is among us in a mild form...

NORTHERN PACIFIC FARMER WHITNEY & WHIPPLE, Publishers. WADENA, WADENA, CO., MINNESOTA. CURRENT TOPICS. BISHOP WHIPPLE of Minnesota conduc ted the ceremony at St. Louis, of consecra ting George K. Dunlap, for some time rec tor of Grace church at Kirkwood, Mo., as bishop of Arizona and New Mexico. The seat of the diocese will be at Santa Fe. HON. ALEXANDER MITCHELL, President of the Milwaukee and St. Paul railway, who has just returned from New York, confirms the statement that a syndicate of American and English bankers has been formed to furnish $40,000,000 to complete the Northern Pacific railway. AN autograph letter from Washington Ir ving is published, vindicating the memory of Mary Queen of Scots, and speaking of her as of one of the loveliest, but most unfor tunate of women, who, after suffering every wrong and outrage while living, has been basely vilified in history. FIXITY of tenure, fair rents and free sale of land, are the remedies proposed by John Bright for the prese...

GOOD FOR THE NORTHERS PACIFIC. Loan of (40,000,000 by a Syndicate of Bankers to Complete the Road in Three Years. Charles D. Wright director of the North ern Pacific Railway company, who returned from New York on the 20th, says negoti ations closed the clay before between the company and a syndicate of American and European bankers, under "which the syndi cate is to furnish $40,000,000 for the com pletion of the road. Mr. Wright says the names of the bankers composing the syndi cate will be published from the company's office in New York in the course of two or three days. They are of the very highest standing that there were no better names in America or Europe. It is understood that the leading members of the syndicate are Dextrel, Morgan & Co., August Belmont & Co., Winslow, Lanier & Co., and J. & W. Seligman & Co., of New York, and Morton, Rose & Co., of London. Mr. Wright, while not giving the terms of the agreement said the syndicate were to take the bo...

Toys at H. Metzger's. Sleighing could be improved some* what, by a little snow. Fresh confectionary very cheap, at Mrs. Ostrander's. We are still anxious to secure wood on subscription at this office. The best stock of clothing at Malt by's, Bluffion. 3 if C. A. Couillard returned home from Minneapolis Tuesday. The choMpest goods on the N. P. R. R. at Bluffton. 3 tf Mr. Dorrison is quite sick at the home of Mr. A. -N. Peach. Candies of all discription at the City Restaurant. Remember, the Pioneer Press and FAKMEK. one year for $2.50. The celebrated Favorite Cook Stove at Maltby's, Biufttou. 3 if H. Metzger Jr. has hung out his signs, which are very neat and tasty. Just call and see those fine ladies furs at Baumbach & Meyer's. The Thanksgiving dance at Peake's Hall was quite an enjoyable affair. Minneapolis Weekly Tribune, and FARMER, one year for $2.50. Don't forget it. A full stock of men's fur cans, at Baumbach & Meyer's. Bement, the drayman, is having a boom, and will so...

II Z% 5'? |i fe. $ $ If ®5l :,4r %-'A 1 A WORD ABOUT WORDS. Ah me! Those terrible tongues of ours! Are we half aware of their mighty powers? Do we ever trouble our heads at all Where the jest may strike or the hint may fall? The latest chirp of that "little bird" That spicy story, "you must have heard"— We jerk away in our gossip rash, And somebody's glass, of course, goes smash, What fames have been blasted and broken, What pestilent sinks have been stirred By a word in lightness spoken, By only an idle word. A sneer—a shrug—a whisper low, They are poisoned shafts from an ambushed bow, Shot by the coward, the fool, the knave They pierce the mail of the great or brave. Vain is buckler of wisdom and pride To turn the pitiless point aside The lips may curl with a careless smile, But the heart drips blood—drips blood the while. Ah me! what hearts have been broken, What rivers of blood been stirred, By a word in malice spoken, By only a bitter word. A kindly word and a tender tone— To o...

MINNESOTA NEWS/ A Catholic Fair at Albert Lea netted $525. Mike Moran of Rice county, has jtist begun his third term in the State prison at Stillwater. Minneapolis reports an assessed valuation of from $4,292,151 in 1870, to $28,013,315 in 1880. It is asserted now that Gen. Schofield will take a year's leave with the aquiescence of the war department. A young Scandinavian named A. B. Skaaden has committed suicide at Blue Mounds, Pope ty, by shooting himself through the head. An elegant Hebrew Temple was dedicated at Minneapolis on Thanksgiving day, with the beautiful observances peculiar to that faith. Late Minnesota patents: Jonathan Hitchcock, Hudson, St. Paul, sand band for vehicles. David M. Swain, Stillwater, boiler for portable engine. The Washington Avenue Methodist church at Minneapolis was damaged by fire on Thursday last to the amount of $600, covered by insur ance. Mr. John Collins, an old citizen of Morton, Steele county, was robbed of $150 a few days since. It was taken...

Vol. III. No. 29. Northern Pacific Farmer OFFICIAL PAPER OK WADENA COUNTY. «. A. WHtTintY. W. JT. WHIPPLE. WHITNEY & WHIPPLE, PROPRIETORS. I8SUBD EVERY THURSDAY MORNING AT WAOENA. WADENA COUNTY. MINNESOTA. RATES IN ABTAJICE: Oneeopfoneyear, $1.50 six months 80 Written for the Farmer. HIBERNATING* ANIMALS. Without resorting to imagination like Irwin and Franklin—we have plenty examples in nature of animals wintering without food. Flies, bugs and reptiles of all sorts and sizes pass the winter dormant or frozen, and we have all seen those found in frozen firewood revived by the (ireheat. The toads found in solid rocks have been buried beyond the influence of the seasons, and they awaken from a sin gle winter that has endured for ages. If the toad were revived after one day's chill, all its sensations and con* ditions would be the same. I have thawed out snakes by tire heat in the early autumn and in the late spring, with nothing to indicate the lapse of a winter. The same innocenc...

NOBTHERN PACIFIC FAEMEB WHITNEY & WHIPPLE, Publishers. WADENA, WADENA, CO., MINNESOTA. CURRENT TOPICS. BUSINESS men at the east are clamoring for a new national bankrupt law, and gener ality favor the Lowell bill now before the judiciary committee of congress. The va ried and conflicting insolvency laws of the states and territories, area perpetual an noyance to business men and a uniform gystern seems to be generally demanded. THE scarcity of cars east of Chicago is severely felt in Minnesota. The Minneap olis milters are compelled to store most of the flour manufactured, and there is talk of shutting down their mills. In the mean time, a large number of elevators where they purchase wheat are filled to overflow ing, and as a temporary relief the millers have sold and are shipping 500,000 bushels to Chicago. REV. DR. J. D. FULTON, a sensational preacher of New York, believes that the perehilia of the planets may have caused diptheria, and that there may be coming on the world c...

CONTENTED. Translations from Upland. Beneath tho liiulen shady, I sat, with my heart's ladye, Contented, hand in hand. There not a leaf was blowing. The sun was brightly glowing Down on the silent land. Tho time we could not measure, .. So lost were wo in pleasure, Scarcely our hearts did beat. We breathed no word—why should we? We questioned not—how could we? We knew that life was sweet We cared not for the-morrow, We knew not pain or sorrow, Love was not far away. From the clear eyes a greeting, A kiss from warm lips meeting— So passed the happy day. NURSE MARPHA. From the San Francisco Argoesy. At Moscow, from 1848 to 1850, a most lovely young woman used to be seen walk ing on the Boulevard Nikitskoi nearly every day, and wearing a rich peasant's dress. She accompanied two charming little girls of four or five years of age, and was her self followed by a footman in livery. Pas sers-by stopped still in front of her, struck by admiration. Common folks were con tented only to stare ...

Vol. i. Toys at H. Metzger's. J. E. Hall was in town Thursday. Canned fruit, in endless variety, at Webb & Peake's. There were 102 pupils enrolled in the schools of Wadena on Monday. The best stock of clothing at Malt by's. Bluff ton. 3 tf The Fargo Republican has a book bindery in connection with its office. Five tons of beef wanted by Webb & Peake. About this time of the year is when buck wheat pancakes are palatable. The cheapest goods on the N. P. R. R. at Biuffbon. 3 tf Mr. M. S. Craik, of Hawley, made the FARMER a pleasant call Tuesday. County and School orders bought at the City Bank, Wadena. Rev. Kidder will preach in Peake's Hall, at 7 o'clock p. m., next Sunday. The celebrated Favorite Cook Stove at Multby's, Bluffton. 3 tf Capt. Sleeper, of the Brainerd Tri bune, was in Wadena a few4hoursFri day. Holiday goods for the millions at the Wadena Drug Store. Remember, the Pioneer Press and FARMER, one year for $2.50. Rev. Mr. Maltby will preach at Bluffton, in the morni...

PKESIDENT fl AYES' LAST. Extension of Commerce Urged-The Fi nances—Animadversions on Silver Dollars. The War, Ifavy, Postoffice and Interior Departments Considered—Another Federal Court Needed. THIS MESSAGE. ADVANTAGES OF REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—Following is the president's message, delivered to congress to day: Fellow Citizens of the Senate and House of Rep resentatives: I congratulate yon on the continued and increasing prosperity of our country. By the favor of Divine Providence we have been blessed during the past year with health and abundant har vests, with profitable employment for all our people, with contentment at home and with friendship with other nations. The occurrence of the twenty-fourth election of chief magistrate has afforded another opportunity to the people of the United States to exhibit to the world a significant example of the transmis sion of tlio power and authority of government from public servants, whose terms of office are about to ex...

indefinitely after the accomplishment of the object for which they were provided, was not con templated by the framers of the law under which they were issued. These notes. long since became, like any other pecuniary obligation of the govern ment, a debt to be paid, and when paid, tm be cancelled, as mere evidence of an indebted ness no longer existing. I therefore repeat what was said in the annual message of last year, that the retirement from circulation of United States notes with the capacity of legal tender in private contracts is a step to be taken in our pro gress toward a safe and stable currency, which shall be accepted as the policy and duty of the govern ment and the interest and security of the people. SILVER DOLLARS. At the time of the passage of the act now in force requiring the coinage of silver dollars, fixing their value and giving them a legal tender character, it was believed "by many supporters of the measure that the silver dollar which it authorized would spe...